These are replacement sounds for your M1 and M1R. They are to be used as cakewalk sysex dumps. After you get them in your M1, you can then dump them to whatever program you wish, I just used Cakewalk becouse I prefer it, and many users have access to a copy. The sounds have come from some of the more popular aftermarket suppliers in the business. As you know when you purchase the sound cards, you get a 1 or 2 card set. In the 1 card set you are just replacing the patches in your unit. You are still using the internal pcm data in your M1. When you have a 2 card set, you are changing the patch data and adding a few new PCM samples. I stress (a Few) becouse if you look at the sheet that somes with the card, you will see an notation next to the new patches that will use the new PCM data. Usually on a PCM card, you only get a small handfull of new PCM samples. This is a ploy to make you believe you cannot copy the cards. In the true sense, you can't save the PCM Data with a SYSEX dump. But if you initialize a dump with the card sounds installed in your unit, you will get over 90 percent of the sounds transferred in the sysex dump. The only thing that you will lose is the few PCM samples that were loaded in your unit. BIG DEAL !!!! The reat of the Patches are great !!!!!!!!!!!!! Load these sounds in your unit and check out wehat some of the hottest patch writers are doing for the M1. Load the File as a Cakewalk .wrk file. Once loaded pull doun the SYSEX menu. Click on sysex file #1 (which will have the name of the card) and send it to your M!. Make sure that the SYSEX in enabled under the global settings of the M!, and that MIDI IN and OUT are connected to the interface and your M!. If the M! is not in the send recieve loop, you will not initiate the handshake dump, and it will abort. You will have to move off of the patch and then return for you to see your new sounds. Remember to save your INTERNAL sounds before you do any kind of SYSEX dump. ENJOY............................................... .